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2007-12-20
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Nope. No tab but you can use the d pad to move between fields. One really glaring omission is the pipe sign (|). You can get it - two screens deep into the alternate character menu. Makes shell script and even simple command line pipes a real pain. But then I normally use my bluetooth keyboard if it much more than a simple grep...
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2007-12-20
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I think xmodmap is working. If you don't have that app, if you have all your application repositories setup, it should be an easy install.
Once that's installed, create a file like ".xmodmap" that contains something like the following.
That is just a file describing changes to the default behaviour that each key should take. Reading each entry from the "="s, the first keysym is what happens when the key is pressed, the second is when the shift key has also been pressed, the third/forth/fifth when the Fn key has been pressed. So for the "z" button, if I push "Fn"+"z", it will behave like "tab". The others are just in there for the way I use my keyboard (for programming and vi)
To implement the changes, run the following command from shell
Hopefully it will work for you then. The way xmodmap works can be looked up via google. For extra constants hunt for xf86Keymap.h online.
If you are sure that your setup is working fine, you can get it to load semi-automatically by putting the xmodmap command into your .profile. It's nor perfect since it only gets executed when a shell is opened. Anyone more familiar with the system have a better solution for all this? I'll be the first to admit that it's a hackish way of going about it.
Once that's installed, create a file like ".xmodmap" that contains something like the following.
Code:
keycode 52 = z Z Tab Tab Tab keycode 20 = minus braceleft underscore underscore underscore keycode 21 = plus braceright equal equal equal keycode 58 = m M bracketleft bracketleft bracketleft keycode 47 = semicolon colon bracketright bracketright bracketright keycode 60 = period greater bar bar bar keycode 104 = Return Escape
To implement the changes, run the following command from shell
Code:
xmodmap /path/to/your/.xmodmap
If you are sure that your setup is working fine, you can get it to load semi-automatically by putting the xmodmap command into your .profile. It's nor perfect since it only gets executed when a shell is opened. Anyone more familiar with the system have a better solution for all this? I'll be the first to admit that it's a hackish way of going about it.
thanks